Hi, Please, review implementation of partition UUID support in wic.
It contains two options: --part-type and --use-uuid --part-type allows to set partition type UUID. It was incorrectly implemted in wic and now it's hopefully fixed. --use-uuid makes wic to generate random globally unique identifier (GUID) for the partition and configure bootloader to boot from it using root=PARTUUID=<GUID> in kernel command line. This technique makes boot process more deterministic and reliable for at least two reasons: - It allows to boot the same image from different devices - It fixes possible boot issues caused by using device names in kernel commandline as GUID doesn't change unlike device names. Ed Bartosh (9): wic: Add --use-uuid partition option wic: Generate random uuid for partition wic: Fix format string wic: Refactored getting root device name wic: Add parameter 'uuid' to Image.add_partition method wic: Set type GUID and UUID for partition wic: Use partition UUID in directdisk-gpt wic: oe-selftest: Configure testing of gpt/UUID image wic: Add help for --part-type and --use-uuid options meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/wic.py | 4 +-- scripts/lib/image/canned-wks/directdisk-gpt.wks | 2 +- scripts/lib/image/help.py | 9 +++++++ scripts/lib/wic/imager/direct.py | 31 ++++++++++------------ .../lib/wic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py | 21 ++++++++++++++- scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-efi.py | 6 ++--- scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-pcbios.py | 3 +-- .../lib/wic/plugins/source/rootfs_pcbios_ext.py | 3 +-- scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py | 20 ++++++++++++-- 9 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) -- Ed -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core